Improvement in folding chairs



H. GLOSTERMAN, Jr.

Folding-Chair.

No. 204,423. Patented June 4,1878;

Q a N m m n s A w a H P m a o u n o m A F s u n F N UNITED STATES PATENTQFFICE.

HENRY OLOSTERMAN, JR, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING CHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 204,423, dated June 4,1878; application filed December 26, 1877.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY CLOSTERMAN, J r., of Cincinnati, Hamiltoncounty, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Folding Chair, of which thefollowing is a specification:

This is an improvement in the class known as camp or folding chairs, butdifi'ers from the usual construction of such chairs in that the rearlegs constituting the seat-support, instead of being crossed by andpivoted to the back, are pivoted to abow-formed frame or member whichembraces the rear legs in two places and the back, stiffening the latterand affording lateral support to the rear legs, which are pivotedthereto.

This construction enables the member which constitutes the rear legs andfront seat support to be in the plane of the back proper, andconsequently to hug closely the inner face of the front legs, from whichit receives and to which it affords, as above stated, lateral support,and to constitute an outside finish to a front seat-round instead ofstopping short at the under side of such round, as in the customaryform. Hence a more sightly, and at the same time wider, seat may beused.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofmy chair, the flexible seat being represented by dotted lines. Fig. 2 isa View of my combined brace-arm and front leg.

The brace-arms A A are made perfectly flush throughout, so that both therear part a and front part a are close to the cross-legs B, which are ofthe ordinary construction, and pivoted at b in the rear part of themembers A A.

The back 0 is secured to the upper ends of said members, but does notextend below the seat, as in former chairs of this sort, where the backand front leg were formed of one long curved piece, which was obviouslyobj ectionable on account of its liability to break from cross-grain andother causes.

The arms a and front legs a constitute virtually one piece or member,which serves to securely brace the inner legs B, and is counterbraced bythem, and so forms a strong, and at the same time simple, combination.

I am aware that backframes have before been made with bow-shaped armspinned thereto; but my invention differs from the above in having eachside frame constructed in the form of a bow-shaped member in one plane,so that these side frames, which constitute the front legs andback-support, and the back legs which are pivoted thereto will mutuallyafford lateral support to each other in two places on each side, and theback legs will occupy the same planes as the back-frames, which areattached between the bow-shaped back support first referred to.

I claim as new and of my invention- The folding chair constructed, asherein described, with bow-shaped members A A, each consisting of aback-support, a, and an arm, a, permanently connected together in oneplane by flush joints at their ends, the rear legs B B pivoted to theback-supports a a, and braced laterally by the arms a a, the back 0applied between the members A A and extending down to the level of theseat, and the front and rear seat-bars, the former applied between theupper ends of the legs B B, and the latter extending through the lowerextremities of the back 0 and through the back supports a a, allsubstantially as specified.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

H. GLOSTERMAN, JR.

Attest:

Gno. H. KNIGHT, L. H. BOND.

